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20% Memory Used - Makes No Sense

Posted by uzair21, 04-09-2011, 01:52 AM
I know that it is not a big deal but this new Xen VPS I got has 4GB RAM and I haven't put anything on it yet except cPanel. The memory usage is at 20% most of the time. Should I be concerned. I was planning on moving the site on this VPS but wanted to ask you guys if it needs any reconfiguration.
Posted by Orien, 04-09-2011, 01:57 AM
Are you counting cached memory too?
Posted by uzair21, 04-09-2011, 02:03 AM
No. Here is what 'Service Status' in WHM says: Server load 0.54 (14 CPUs) Memory Used 19.40% (794480 of 4096000) Swap Used 0.00% (72 of 8191992)
Posted by Rapid2214, 04-09-2011, 05:27 AM
Can you post the results of
Posted by uzair21, 04-09-2011, 02:06 PM
I tried rebooting but the memory usage wouldn't come down. But I did fix it I guess. I used And this brought the memory usage to a more 'normal' state. free -m now gives me Mem: 4000 671 3328 0 6 70 -/+ buffers/cache: 595 3404 Swap: 7999 0 7999
Posted by MikeDVB, 04-09-2011, 02:14 PM
It's normal for the system to load the memory with caches, those caches get dropped if the ram is needed.